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- Cristian Inzunza won the internal competition and as of March 1 is working in the framework of the Regular Fondecyt projects of Jessika Camaño and Sergio Caucao.
Cristian Inzunza Domínguez, who obtained the highest academic degree in the PhD program in Applied Sciences with mention in Mathematical Engineering at the Universidad de Concepción, was recently awarded one of the scholarships granted by the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the U. de Chile, for postdoctoral stays at the Universidad de Concepción.
The two-year project is entitled ‘Finite Element Methods for Nonlinear Problems with Biomedical and Engineering Applications‘ and will be implemented at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics of the U. Católica de la Santísima Concepción, UCSC, in collaboration with Jessika Camaño Valenzuela and Sergio Caucao Paillán, both CMM researchers.
The objective of this research, Dr. Inzunza explained, is “to continue the line of research that I developed during my doctorate under the supervision of Professor Gabriel Gatica, also incorporating the approaches proposed by Jessika and Sergio in the study of finite element methods for nonlinear problems with applications in biomedicine and engineering”.
“At UCSC”, the researcher detailed, ”my role is that of postdoctoral researcher, working under the supervision of Sergio and Jessika. My work will focus on the development and analysis of numerical schemes for the Biot equations, incorporating nonlinear terms, as well as their couplings and related models, contributing to both Jessika’s and Sergio’s Fondecyt project objectives”.
Dr. Camaño -also a member of the DSALT Group Project ‘Computational Mathematics for Desalination Problems’ (ACT210087)- explained that “undoubtedly, the work that Cristian will develop during these years will contribute to his growth as a researcher and will allow him to contribute both Sergio and me with his expertise in common research topics such as the study of theoretical and computational aspects of fluid dynamics problems, a topic considered in our respective Fondecyt projects”.
“The incorporation of Cristian as a postdoctoral researcher seems to me an extremely positive development. Apart from the joint research collaboration that is expected to materialize in articles in the near future, his arrival will also help us to strengthen and enhance the Research Group in Numerical Analysis and Scientific Calculus (GIANuC²) of the Faculty of Engineering of the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción (UCSC), a group of which I am part as well as Sergio Caucao as Director”, added Dr. Camaño.
Among the 680 proposals awarded this year by this competition is ‘Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Single and Coupled Problems with Biomedical and Geoscience Applications‘, directed by Dr. Caucao, who explained that “it is a natural extension of the research that I began during my doctorate and postdoctoral studies at the U. de Concepción, which I continued in my postdoctorate at the University of Pittsburgh and which I later deepened in the projects of the Grant to the Installation in the Academy, and Fondecyt of Initiation in Research at UCSC”.
In this context, Caucao highlighted that the CMM internal project recently awarded by Inzunza is already being implemented as of March. “He is already working under the supervision of Professor Jessika Camaño and myself at UCSC. Cristian’s collaboration will enhance my Fondecyt project, since we will work on proposed topics, both in Jessika’s Fondecyt project and in the one I have just been awarded”.
By Iván R. Tobar Bocaz, journalist of the Center for Mathematical Modeling, Concepción.
Posted on Mar 13, 2025 in News
